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apparition

/ap-uh-rish-uhn/US // ˌæp əˈrɪʃ ən //UK // (ˌæpəˈrɪʃən) //

幽灵,幻影,幻觉,幻象

Related Words

phantom幻影,幻象,幽灵,幻像visitant访问者,探访者,探视者,参观者revenant报仇者,复仇者,报仇人,报复者delusion错觉,妄想,妄念,幻想haunt困扰,闹事,困扰人们的问题,困扰人们的是bogeyman妖怪,妖怪人,恶棍,祸害specter幽灵,阴影,荧光剂,画面chimera嵌合体,拟态,嵌合剂,蛹虫草spirit灵魂,灵魂人物,灵魂深处,灵魂的力量spook幽灵,惊吓,惊魂,诡异hallucination幻觉,幻象,幻听,幻想phantasm幻觉,幻象,幻影,幻境illusion幻象,幻想,幻觉,幻影

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith: a ghostly apparition at midnight.
    • : anything that appears, especially something remarkable or startling: the surprising apparition of cowboys in New York City.
    • : an act of appearing; manifestation.
    • : Astronomy. the appearance or time when a comet, especially a periodic one, is visible: the 1986 apparition of Halley's comet.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounghost
Forms: apparitions
Synonyms
bogeyman妖怪,妖怪人,恶棍,祸害chimera嵌合体,拟态,嵌合剂,蛹虫草delusion错觉,妄想,妄念,幻想hallucination幻觉,幻象,幻听,幻想haunt困扰,闹事,困扰人们的问题,困扰人们的是illusion幻象,幻想,幻觉,幻影phantasm幻觉,幻象,幻影,幻境phantom幻影,幻象,幽灵,幻像revenant报仇者,复仇者,报仇人,报复者specter幽灵,阴影,荧光剂,画面spirit灵魂,灵魂人物,灵魂深处,灵魂的力量spook幽灵,惊吓,惊魂,诡异visitant访问者,探访者,探视者,参观者bump in the night黑夜中的碰撞,黑夜中的撞击,黑夜中的颠簸,黑夜中的磕碰

Examples

  • My van, Gizmo, shook violently as I traversed the sixteen-mile washboard road up to Mowich Lake, Rainier hovering like an apparition on the horizon.

  • The superb list of guest stars includes Bowen Yang, Vanessa Williams, John Slattery and Fey herself, appearing, incredibly, as an apparition of Dolly Parton.

  • Petrie repeatedly refers to Elefantin as an apparition, a revenant, an illusion.

  • Rogue waves are sea ghosts, terrifying apparitions that arise without warning.

  • During our drive home from dinner, an apparition of a yellow deer appears to me, seeming to float in the air over the Cullinan’s massive bonnet.

  • And then Further is gone, back on the road, like a time-traveling relic from another era or an apparition of Jerry Garcia.

  • Mukamazimpaka also last reported seeing an apparition in 1989.

  • It will be far more consequential than the weird apparition of the gun–crazed rocker Ted Nugent at the State of the Union.

  • And the president has to be himself too, not the sudden apparition of an inauthentic pol.

  • His challenge to use this week to cast the race as between two flesh-and-blood men, not the apparition of 2008.

  • Terrified with this apparition, he consulted several friends, who advised him to take the advice.

  • This apparition lasted some eight minutes, and as soon as it disappeared another came of the same form, direction and appearance.

  • The lions stopped also, being evidently taken by surprise at the sudden and unexpected apparition of a man!

  • Yet, the harder I stared the clearer appeared the amazing and monstrous apparition.

  • Humanity shut its eyes in view of the hideous apparition of wan and haggard beggary and crime.

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